supply-chain-security
Safeguard articles tagged "supply-chain-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Anatomy of a Typosquatting Campaign: How Attackers Pick T...
Real typosquatting campaigns follow a repeatable playbook: target selection, edit-distance tricks, and install-time payloads. Here's how attackers actually pick their targets.
Dependency Confusion Attacks Five Years Later: Are Enterp...
Five years after Alex Birsan's $130K dependency confusion disclosure, real attacks like PyTorch's torchtriton incident show the flaw is still live. Here's what's actually fixed.
Post-Install Scripts: The Overlooked Execution Point Atta...
Postinstall scripts run automatically on `npm install` with full user privileges—no review required. Here's how attackers exploit them, from ua-parser-js to Shai-Hulud.
Credential-Stealing Packages: What They Target and How Th...
Credential-stealing packages harvest env vars, browser passwords, and npm tokens at install time. Here's how ctx, W4SP, and Shai-Hulud actually work.
How Package Takeover via Maintainer Account Compromise Ac...
Attackers don't hack npm's servers — they phish or socially engineer maintainers. Here's how account takeover turns trusted packages into malware.
Supply Chain Worming: Self-Propagating Malicious Packages...
How the Shai-Hulud npm worm self-propagated across 500+ packages in 48 hours by stealing tokens and republishing itself — and how to stop the next one.
Continuous Integration Security: A Checklist
Continuous integration security means treating your CI pipeline as a production system, because an attacker who compromises your CI runner can ship malicious code as easily as your own engineers.
Slopsquatting in the AI Era: Registering Packages AI Mode...
AI coding assistants hallucinate package names at rates as high as 19.7% — and attackers are registering those exact names. Here's how slopsquatting works and how to stop it.
Why 'We Have an SBOM' Isn't the Same as 'We Are Secure'
An SBOM tells you what's in your software, not whether it's safe. Here's why inventory alone can't stop supply chain attacks like XZ Utils or SolarWinds.
AI-BOMs: Extending Bill-of-Materials Thinking to Machine ...
AI-BOMs extend SBOM discipline to machine learning models—tracking training data, weights, and lineage. Here's what they contain and why regulators now require them.
Third-Party SBOM Trust: Can You Verify a Vendor's Bill of...
A vendor's SBOM is a claim, not proof. Here's what actually verifies third-party software bills of materials — and why signatures alone aren't enough.
From Inventory to Insight: Turning SBOM Data Into Priorit...
A complete SBOM often surfaces thousands of CVEs. Here's how reachability, exploitability, and business context turn that noise into a prioritized action plan.